VIRGINIA WOOLF’S ORIENTAL DISCOURSE IN ORLANDO (1928)
VIRGINIA WOOLF’S ORIENTAL DISCOURSE IN ORLANDO (1928)
Author(s): Elisabeta ZelinkaSubject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Summary/Abstract: "Virginia Woolf’s Oriental discourse is a device of establishing and assessing the author’s masculine and/or feminine style, due to the masculine and/or feminine attitude that she adopts towards the ‘other-ed’, different Orient. According to Orientalists, each individual Oriental discourse was and is heavily gendered that is, it is loaded with certain typical masculine and feminine features. In the present paper I will investigate the masculine and the feminine features of the Oriental discourse in general. I will then go on to analyse Virginia Woolf’s masculine and/or feminine style based on the trope of Orientalism (that is her Oriental discourse), by applying this literary analysis in her novel Orlando (1928). "[...]
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 07
- Page Range: 58-78
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English